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> Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift? You can become a legal guardian, and/or get access and shared ownership on their bank account and monitor it constantly. But yeah , it's a hassle.
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2mo ago
In testing. Waymo though is serving millions of rides for years now. Not saying Tesla won't close this gap but there's a real gap.
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2mo ago
For sure , this is gonna kill driver jobs and/or lower their wages due to the increased competition. The upside is cheaper mobility for everyone - in general tech like this should have a deflationary effect (We're still not seein
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2mo ago
> American-Israeli conflict against Iran Is it even a correct framing for the conflict ? Iran seems to have big issues with UAE and Saudi Arabia and repeatedly fired at them and got fired by them.
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2mo ago
I doubt higher ups wanna babysit agent software engineers all day long, it's not fun and its pretty time consuming and cognitively demanding. They'll let humans handle it - but their dream is way less humans will be needed than be
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2mo ago
Cos patients often don't understand shit from a 3 minute tired and distracted doctor interaction, it's particulary bad in hospitals. I don't really blame them.
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2mo ago
> has me questioning how much longer I want to remain in the industry The effect is less pronounced in other industries but they're gonna catch up. Might take a decade for some of them , perhaps even 20 years for the rare ones like
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2mo ago
Sounds like a lot of work I'd probably want my robot to have set with the other robot for me
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3mo ago
> This category of software may have a much more meaningful impact on work than the mostly-chat systems we were using from 2022-2025. Mostly an impact on software development - I'm not seeing broad automation and layoffs in industri
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3mo ago
Lol
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3mo ago
> Either you need to understand how your codebase works or you don’t. It's an interesting point. We can also think about it perhaps as a non binary thing - you need X amount of understanding in a specific codebase to be effective.
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3mo ago
> We have designed society to produce people neurotically obsessed with ranking and comparison in school, work, and social media Comparing ourselves to others is probably built into our DNA. Most primates also have a social hierarchy. A
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3mo ago
Ah Israel. Yes Israel is the reason. THey're responsible for tens of millions of people coming from Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia etc etc.
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3mo ago
At Burger King?
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3mo ago
They're getting paid?
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3mo ago
> why would the world keep you alive? I don't buy this. Tons of people in the West live on welfare and don't contribute shit to the economy, they are net takers. No one is plotting to kill them, in fact they're (arguably)
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3mo ago
> but most illegals to US are not skilled, but they're tolerated as long as they don't break any major laws Define tolerated. It's quite a divisive issue in the U.S and I'd say there's a majority who doesn't
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3mo ago
> Just think of how often some "new and improved version" drops some important feature you used without providing a good replacement? We'll get more of that. If the codebase is unmaintainable, they'll just regenerate
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3mo ago
My honest take is forget that burning interest in programming, it likely won't matter that much in a few years. There may be a need for technically strong people who understand whatever the domain the company works on well I say focus
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3mo ago
Good for the guy. Whatever he was doing before - it was probably too much, too soon or with the wrong people (e.g - arguing with a senior architect who's been in the company for a decade is not the same as with a junior colleague).
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> It hurts more than it helps Hurts who ? Yes the doctor is super stressed and has maybe 10 minutes for you that's the actual problem, it's not like before LLMs they were super glad to sit there and answer all your questions.
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3mo ago
fucking hell. dont they have language tests for foreign nurses? how the hell did she pass it ?
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3mo ago
> But AI's problem is that its completely full of shit, sometimes It's now quite unusual that it's "Completely full of shit". If it contradicts something your doctor said I don't see why you should feel asha
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> It was already difficult to deal with self diagnosis for doctors I get it. But the current system is also super difficult for the patient: getting time to ask questions, get clear answers, get the best possible diagnosis taking into ac
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3mo ago
> it's better information, and AI cannot currently provide that It sometimes can, if it straight out never can no one would use it. People use it , lots of them.
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3mo ago
The A.I is only gonna get better , and fast. Doctors should simply double check themselves by using A.I.
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3mo ago
Nightmare because they're always right and the A.I second guessing is always wrong, or because they just don't like to be second guessed?
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4mo ago
This is a fantastic outcome - lots of money and U.S citizenship! And your product didn't even hurt anyone unlike working for Meta, in fact no one even used it!
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4mo ago
Well Italy for example is a founding member and joined in 1958. So not including it makes as much sense as not including Germany.
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4mo ago
Yeah 10PM is still really bad, the house becomes a freaking oven
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